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[Robsoie]

As my faction camp is now well established, and i have enough provision for long timed expedition, i decided to explore much more of the world surrounding my zombie-free region.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Did a quest that involved after that more quest regarding a church from one of my NPC team member that also got us moving around a lot, though after the last quest i was expecting another one as the last quest of that chain didn't solved the whole point of that story but the npc does not have jobs anymore.
Oh well, at least we explored more.

Ran into a national guard camp, i had read scary thing about it, filled with super scifi flying drones with long ranged machinegun, but fortunately as i was playing in Classic mode, the camp was devoid of silly robot stuff.
It's rather huge and there's a rather huge underground too, but what served my purpose more is that it had several functional vehicle, that helped me to push my exploration further.

Unfortunately i rammed a bit too many zombies in a far away town and the car ceased to work in the middle of a huge horde.
I managed to escape but my NPC team was utterly destroyed, they took down some undead though but unfortunately friendly NPC seems to have much less AI "fighting spirit" and often wait too much before shooting or do not shoot at all before their enemy is at only a couple tiles (hostile NPC have no problem shooting at you at full range)
This regardless of the AI setting you give them in the talk menu.

Anyways, coming back to my faction camp, it was then only me and the camp manager NPC , a new NPC popped up and i managed to convince him to join my faction, that had been near annihilated.
crafted a complete bone armor for myself just in case i get again in a very bad situation.

And it was a good idea, because while exploring away i ran into something i never found before on my world


It's not signaled by a letter but by you spotting red hostile npc together like in that screenshot.

It's a bandit camp, there was roughly a dozen of very hostile npc (that shoot you at full range , unlike your friendly npc) in their walled base surrounded by landmines.
Got away badly wounded , but i guess without the bone armor the character would just be dead.

I'll have to find again a lot of NPC to recruit, and then make a night raid (as then this idiotic range advantage of hostile vs friendly NPC is nullified) and take revenge on those guys.

[Aseaheru]

Spoiler: On the national guard camp (click to show/hide)

Version I play its not manned with drones, but super-duper aggravating melt-away cloned/GEed supersoldier thingies.

[Robsoie]

There's a bug that makes the game crash very often starting with build 8195.
It's related to a new PR that got merged
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/26488

So until they fix it, stay with build 8194 or previous to get a much more stable game.

Additionally, the most excellent and always up to date tileset MSX-DeadPeopleEdition is now included in the experimental (as nearly all the other tilesets are either old or abandonned enough to have many items and monsters not using tiles).
No idea if they will maintain it the same as SomeDeadGuy does, as he updates nearly daily, here's his github in case you want to get his latest work :
https://github.com/SomeDeadGuy/Cata-MSX-DeadPeopleTileset

[Broseph Stalin]

Looks like I'm not getting back into cataclysm, windows has decided it's a virus and that my command to "run anyway" should be interpreted as "user is crazy, delete this file."

Edit: It was avast, apparently stuck in quiet mode, quarantining the file. I'd apologize to windows for assuming that it was responsible for the fuck up but in my investigation of the problem I discovered the IT administrator of my personal computer had apparently locked certain features of Defender.

[Aseaheru]

 Yeah, Windows isint quite that insane. Close, but not quite.

[Robsoie]

Wanted to mention that apparently the build 8195+ crashing bug has been fixed at some point.

As i'm still running though my 8194 world, i have ceased to update until i'm finished with it so i have no idea which exact build had this light crashing bug fixed.

To be sure you don't get the light crash bug, just download the latest experimental anyways or get back to a 8194 and less.

[Broseph Stalin]

It's summer and all my shit is frozen.

[Sergius]

Did you do a glacier embark?

[Broseph Stalin]

No I'm playing eternal summer which some research and intuition suggests actually means eternal early spring.

[Majestic7]

So I haven't played for a while. Are the recent builds still plagued with UnFun amounts of detail needing manual busywork? Like having to clean your clothes with a separate command an item of clothing at the time and stuff?

[Blood_Librarian]

Dirty Clothes only need to be cleaned if you pick them off of zombies. Its a bit easy to clean them, with the only requirements being a (somewhat large, about 1 unit per .25 liter) amount of water, 1 soap/detergent, and a washboard created from a wooden board.

[beorn080]

No I'm playing eternal summer which some research and intuition suggests actually means eternal early spring.

I recall a bug that caused eternal starts to lock eternal in as day 1 of spring if the world is generated as eternal season. I'm not sure if it's been corrected, but the temp fix was to generate the world without that setting, then switch it once playing.

[Sergius]

So I haven't played for a while. Are the recent builds still plagued with UnFun amounts of detail needing manual busywork? Like having to clean your clothes with a separate command an item of clothing at the time and stuff?

You use the washboard item, then an UI pops up to choose dirty clothes from your inventory. After that it tells you how much soap and water you'll need.

Alternatively if you're using a powered vehicle rig you can just fill it up a wash machine with dirty clothes and turn it on (needs water from vehicle tanks).

[Broseph Stalin]

I recall a bug that caused eternal starts to lock eternal in as day 1 of spring if the world is generated as eternal season. I'm not sure if it's been corrected, but the temp fix was to generate the world without that setting, then switch it once playing.

Tried it, no effect.

[Robsoie]

This is odd, on an experimental from some months ago i had played an eternal summer run that took 2 summer cycles (as once you reach 3 months of summer you go back to the 1st day of summer) before i decided to go play on another world (as my save was way too big by then so i just deleted it) and i don't remember having to deal with those stupid constant freezing.

Maybe you're only in very early summer and for whatever reason there's still the cdda arctic-level of spring going on only for for few first summer days ?